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McGinniss has strayed far from his roots as the respected journalist whose “The Selling of The President” provided objective insights into what was in 1968 the state-of-the-art presidential campaign. Judging from Maslin’s take on “The Rogue,” McGinniss appears to have joined the ranks of writers such as Jerome Corsi (of Swift Boat and Obama birther fame), Brent Bozell, Dick Morris and the gang at Regnery Press in spewing such venom that even the truth is obscured. My regret is that a future, serious review of Palin’s interrupted term as governor will be tainted by McGinniss’s hatchet work.

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